LAUDERDALE COUNTY, TN - DEEDS - H.A. Mueller to G.L. Fitzgerald 1922 ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb by transcribed by Sarah Hutcherson <> ===================================================================== STATE OF TENNESSEE LAUDERDALE COUNTY COUNTY REGISTER'S OFFICE RIPLEY,TENNESSEE H.A.MUELLER & WIFE to G.L.FITZGERALD. DEED. KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS,that we H.A.MUELLER and wife,ERA MUELLER for and in consideration of the sum of FOUR THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED-SEVENTY SEVEN AND 66/100 dollars,of which amount G.L.FITZGERALD has this day paid to us the sum of SEVENTEEN HUNDRED SEVENTY SEVEN AND 66/100 Dollars,in cash,receipt of which is acknowledged,and for the balance has and does hereby assume the payment of a balance of Twenty Six Hundred Dollars that we owe The Federal Land Bank of Louisville and which is secured by first mortgage on the land here conveyed of record in the register's office at Ripley,Tennessee to which reference is expressly made.Now for the consideration aforesaid we have this day bargained and sold and do hereby transfer and convey unto the said G.L.FITZGERALD his heirs and assigns,a certain tract of land,which is situate,lying and being in the 2nd civil district of said county and being the same tract of land conveyed to the said MUELLER by W.B.CAMPBELL and wife by deed of record in the register's office at Ripley,Tennessee in Deed Book J-3 Page 256 to which reference is made and same is described: Beginning at the n.w.cor of a tract of land sold by BENNETT WILLIAMS to G.M.SHAW,thence east with SHAW's north line 59 1/4 poles to a stake,SHAW's n.e.cor thence north 180 poles to a stake,2 elm pointers,thence west 59 3/10 poles to a stake with two paw-paw and sweet gum pointers,it being the n.w.cor.of the original 263 1/4 acre tract; thence with its western boundary line 180 poles to the beginning.CONTAINING 66 Acres and 96 poles. ALSO a strip 10 feet wide and 180 poles long long the west side of said tract and making a total of 67 and 1/3 acres more or less.To have and to hold said tract of land to the said G.L.FITZGERALD,his heirs and assigns.We covenant to and with him that we are well seized and possessed of said land: that we have a good right to sell and convey the same; that the same is unencumbered except to said Land Bank as refered to above,and that we will warrant and forever defend the title to the same against the lawful claims of all persons whomsoever except the claim of said Federal Land Bank. AND the said ERA MUELLER,wife of H.A.MUELLER relinquishes and conveyed all rights of homestead and dower thar she has in and to said lands,as wife of H.A.MUELLER,and joins in this deed also for the purposes herein expressed. This December 12,1922. $2.00 Revenue Stamps attached and cancelled. H.A.MUELLER. ERA MUELLER. STATE OF TENNESSEE LAUDERDALE COUNTY Personally appeared before me,I.M.STEELE,a Notary Public in and for said county H.A.MUELLER and his wife ERA MUELLER the within named bargainors,with whom I am personally acquainted,and who acknowledged that they executed the within instrument for the purposes therein contained. And ERA MUELLER,wife of H.A.MUELLER having appeared before me privately and apart from her husband,the said H.A.MUELLER,acknowledged the execution of the said instrument to have been done by her freely,voluntarily and understandingly,without compulsion or constraint from her husband,and for the purposes therein expressed. Witness my hand and seal of office at office in Ripley,Tennessee.This 12th day of December 1922. I.M.STEELE Notary Public. PRESENTED FOR REGISTRATION on the 12th day of December 1922 at 12:07 o'clock p.m. W.L.DURHAM, Register. By H.L.HANNA,D.R.